LightHeaded

LightHeaded is a very simple addon that displays quest information and comments from http://www.wowhead.com in game, eliminating the need to Alt-Tab when you get stuck on quest. This addon was inspired by qcomments and wowhead_quests, which both serve a similar purpose. Data is only loaded when you first request it, so you can be sure you're not using more memory than you need to.

/lh autodetails - Toggle automatic opening of the Lightheaded window when clicking a quest in the objective tracker

LightHeaded now includes the English descriptions and introductory text for most of the quests in the game. This is disabled by default, but can be enabled for those players that are not playing in their native locale.

IMPORTANT: Addon authors that wish to use this API and data should
include the wowhead logo in the frame that displays this information.
They are kind enough to let me continue parsing their database, and we
owe them at least that much. Thank you.

Thanks for using my addons!

Donations:
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If you're using the API to retrieve comments and looked at fields other than
rating, date, username, and the body of the comment then you will find that
data is no longer available. However, the API has not changed, I just return
reasonable fake data for those results.

Parsed 23-Jan-2012
Total number of comments: 115267
Total number of quests: 9894
Comments per bucket: 23053

* Added support for AddonLoader. LightHeaded will delay loading until you open the quest log, or another addon queries LightHeaded.
* Moved NPC data and quest name data into LoD stubs to cut down on the initial hit when loading
* Updated to Dongle-1.2

* Added basic searching functionality to LightHeaded by quest name or quest id
* Clicking on a quest link while the cursor is in the search box will copy the quest id into the box and search for that specific quest

* Remove the conflict detection code from LightHeaded. Users that choose to run some of the addons that behave improperly can determine any conflicts on their own. Addons that conflict will be listed on the LightHeaded addon description until those authors resolve the issue.

* Altered the conflict detection system to be a bit more flexible. The only thing I can see tripping it currently are addons that actually misbehave, i.e. Armory
* Altered so clicking on a quest in the DEFAULT quest log actually does reset the page/scroll

* Altered the logic of the LightHeaded display frame, such that it will remember in the same session what page/scroll location you were at for any given quest. This means if you scroll to the bottom of page 3 on a specific quest, select another one and then come back you will go back to that same location.
* Added basic detection for addon conflicts (where the offending addon is causing cyclic scans of the quest log frames). These addons can severely impact the performance of your client when using LightHeaded together with them, so a warning message is displayed.

* Added a more robust conversion from decimal numbers into coordinates (xx.xx) that should work cross-locale
* Added code courtesty Rebligarbune that displays the estimated experience at your given level for a grey quest, and the estimated gold reward for max level characters

* Fixed a bug that caused the wrong quest to be displayed after the frame was unhidden
* Changed the behavior of the close button to close the quest log instead of the frame
* If you are using a quest log other than the default, the behavior shoudl be unchanged

* Fixed an issue where the page would flip back to 1 due to other addons
* Fixed an issue where the close button wasn't clickable
* Fixed a bug that prevented you from clicking on the quest title to go back to page 1
* Fixed a bug that could occur when loading item tooltips

* Made failure and loading messages optional. You can enable these using the /lh debug command.
* If you have a blank LightHeaded window when selecting a quest, please enable debug messages and report the errors to cladhaire.

* Removed LightHeaded:KeyToQID() since we can't provide one to one mappings
* Provide bool = LightHeaded:KeyMatchQID(title, level, qid) to determine if a given title/level combination matches the given qid

* Added a debugstack for bad level in GetBracket()
* Added title,level = LightHeaded:QIDToTitleLevel(qid), will only return a value if the quest database is loaded
* Adjusted offsets for LightHeaded:GetQuestComment() to make more sense now
* Fixed an issue with paging when in single-page mode

* Added guard to GetBracket() for string input
* Renamed the second LoadQuestData to LoadQIDData(qid)
* Added series information to quest info returns.
* Added a stack to the LHFrame
* Can now click on wowhead quest links to go to those links in LH
* Quest Series information is now displayed, and linkable

* Duplicate quest keys (i.e. Varedis Must Be Stopped @ Level 70, which has both Scryer and Aldor versions) now both show on the qinfo screen, with full information about each.
* Comments for duplicate quests are still combined, there is no technical way around this at the moment.

* Added the following comment
-- IMPORTANT: Addon authors that wish to use this API and data should
-- include the wowhead logo in the frame that displays this information.
-- They are kind enough to let me continue parsing their database, and we
-- owe them at least that much. Thank you.

* c,z,x,y = Added LightHeaded:IterateNPCLocs(id)
* Recoded the NPC information portion of the addon to use the new function
* Altered the link handling for zcoords, so they will check for TomTom.AddZWaypoint and use it if possible.

* Added hyperlinks to NPC names, and only NPC's.
* Clicking them will bring you to the NPC coordinate page, which has no relevant information yet.
* This page contains a back button, which will take you back to the quest page

* Changed the sliding animation to be time based rather than step based, thanks to JoshBorke.
* Animation and sound should be relatively synced on all clients now, but the animation could be jaggedy under low FPS

* Added a wrapper frame so I can fade it to avoid layering issues.
* Added a frame title, showing the current revision number
* Created a SimpleHTML frame to play with, and see if we'll be able to use it.

Originally posted by Cladhaire
[b]As posted in the comments and changelog, this is no longer the case. It was done as a temporary measure to help me get the 2.4 version out of the door. Feel free to download the newest version and enjoy the little-to-no memory usage when dormant.

hello, I just installed lightheaded (and cartographer and doublewide). I have the little "window" for it (with the wowhead logo in it) but it has no quest info on any of my quests...I tried to reinstall it and still the same issues... thanks for any info in advance.

Originally posted by bigheadmikelove hello, I just installed lightheaded (and cartographer and doublewide). I have the little "window" for it (with the wowhead logo in it) but it has no quest info on any of my quests...I tried to reinstall it and still the same issues... thanks for any info in advance.

Inevitably LightHeaded is either installed incorrectly, or you are getting an error. You are the only one who can troubleshoot this issue.

You need to make sure all six LightHeaded folders are installed in your addons directory and are listed in your addon selection screen. Then, you should make sure Lua errors are enabled, along with running /lh debug to enable LH's debug messages.

LightHeaded works just fine, you'll need to help figure out why its not working. The best way to do it is to disable all addons other than LightHeaded and verify its working correctly.

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Originally posted by Lorielle I have always loved LightHeaded. You will never understand just how much faster it has made my lvling up!

My problem is that I have gone ahead and deleted all the previous ones so I can download the new one and for some reason it won't allow me to do it.

I didn't know if there had been previous problems with getting it to download or if maybe it was just really busy. Thanks

There shouldn't be any issues. Can you please be more specific about what errors you are getting, or anything? I've verified that I can download the file without issues.

__________________
"There's only one thing that I know how to do well and I've often been told that you only can do what you know how to do well, and that's be you-- be what you're like-- be like yourself. And so I'm having a wonderful time, but I'd rather be whistling in the dark..."

Originally posted by Cladhaire There shouldn't be any issues. Can you please be more specific about what errors you are getting, or anything? I've verified that I can download the file without issues.

I click on the download button and it keeps telling me that the file might be offline or its too busy and won't download.

I use both firefox and Internet explorer so I figured one of them might be the problem but it will not download regardless of which one I use.

Edit: I just tried it again and it is saying that the file is taking too long to respond. This is what its been telling me to do, firefox, and I've been trying to download for over an hour so i finally became a member so i could post and see if the problem was something I was doing.

* The site could be temporarily unavailable or too busy. Try again in a few
moments.

* If you are unable to load any pages, check your computer's network
connection.

* If your computer or network is protected by a firewall or proxy, make sure
that Firefox is permitted to access the Web.

Originally posted by Lorielle I click on the download button and it keeps telling me that the file might be offline or its too busy and won't download.

I use both firefox and Internet explorer so I figured one of them might be the problem but it will not download regardless of which one I use.

I've just downloaded twice more, once with Safari and once with Firefox. There aren't any known issues with the website at the moment that I am aware of.

__________________
"There's only one thing that I know how to do well and I've often been told that you only can do what you know how to do well, and that's be you-- be what you're like-- be like yourself. And so I'm having a wonderful time, but I'd rather be whistling in the dark..."

I went ahead and downloaded safari to see if I could maybe get it to work and it too will not do it.
This is the message I just got from Safari.
I'm guessing that there might be something wrong with wowinterface, I just hope they fix it soon because I really love lightHeaded and would rather not quest without it.

__________________
"There's only one thing that I know how to do well and I've often been told that you only can do what you know how to do well, and that's be you-- be what you're like-- be like yourself. And so I'm having a wonderful time, but I'd rather be whistling in the dark..."

LightHeaded's comments have been updated. In addition the following changes were made:

* Comments with a rating of 0 are now included in the results
* Comments are sorted first by rating and then by date. This means you'll always have the best information in the earliest pages.

__________________
"There's only one thing that I know how to do well and I've often been told that you only can do what you know how to do well, and that's be you-- be what you're like-- be like yourself. And so I'm having a wonderful time, but I'd rather be whistling in the dark..."

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